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From: se@fileserv1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Where to buy NCR 810 PCI SCSI cards?
Date: 15 Sep 1994 22:22:50 GMT
Organization: Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne, Germany
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References: <199408172054.PAA07862@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <356m8j$n1f@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <MICHAELV.94Sep14133142@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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In article <MICHAELV.94Sep14133142@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
|> The NCR 53c810 driver is included as a standard driver in NetBSD-1.0.
|> Hopefully, 1.0 will get released soon so people can start using it.
|> Last I heard, they were predicting imminent release sometime this week
|> or next week.
|> 
|> Aside from that, you can get the driver from the guy who wrote it.
|> Don't know who he is, but he posts here regularly, so hopefully he'll
|> volunteer that info.

The driver was written by Wolfgang Stanglmeier <wolf@dentaro.GUN.de>
and me. It compiles under any of the BSDs, but will become part of 
NetBSD-1.0 and FreeBSD-2.0.

New features are support for both the 53c810 and the 53c825, and the 
latter with WIDE SCSI support.

A new version of the sources for FreeBSD-1.1 and will be put into the 
archive sites this weekend (*still* have to update the INSTALL docs):

	FTP.Uni-Koeln.DE:packages/FreeBSD/PCI-SCSI
and 
	Freefall.CDROM.Com:pub/FreeBSD/PCI-SCSI

There is a FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 GENERIC boot floppy (kcopy_nc.flp.gz) and 
the driver sources (scsi-ncr-2.1.tar.gz). If you already have FreeBSD
installed and running, then you only have to get the sources.


STefan
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